Homework #2 AMSCO work

Score:7/7

I least know the stories of Hermes, Daedalus, and Penelope the least although I didn't know these I did know the ones they were compared with and made an educated guess. In greek mythology Daedalus was a great an honored architect who designed the labrynith or the cage that held the minotaur captive, however he was held captive in his creation. he knew he could escape with the wax wings he created by his son was foolish and flew too close to the sun god apollo and fell to his death, this is a symbolic story to the dangers of entering "the realm of the gods".Penelope is the faithful wide of Odysseus in the Odyssey who awaits his return while turning down any other possible suitors And Hermes is the greek God of commerce and the guide to the souls of the dead.

Homework #2 "Monsters etc."

Blade is a classic vampire  movie with a twist because Blade is a vampire hybrid who hunts vampires and unlike other vampires can walk in the sunlight. His hate for other vampires came from the fact that his human mother was killed by a vampire. he was taken in later by an older vampire hunter who knew he was different. Besides the vampire story this story may also suggest one thing that the foster book  did not. All of the vampiric things has to do with sin and one thing this one deals with is both lust and greed. It is like the Bible in that it criticizes the rich because Blade's mother was lower class and most if not all of the vampires featured in the movie were in places of power or rich unless they were the extremely lower level guys who where not actually vampires yet but wanted to be.

Homework#2 Tuesday

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Isaiah 28:16Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

 In this song the composer is speaking of a significant other and the line "You are my cornerstone" suggests that the composer’s significant other is the most important thing in their life. That they feel like they can't live without their significant other being there for them and vice versa. The author could have said life, or strength or any other adjective but this one word encompasses everything. This also worked better with the song and adding a lot of descriptive words would have make it long and drawn out more like an old country song than an upbeat contemporary song.

p.s. I did not copy this I put in word to check the word count and it came out looking like this.

Homework #2 Monday "Communion" #2

another significant meal in Posionwood Bible is when it is summer in the congo and there is almost no food left and in a desperate effort to feed the village the men are going to hunt by light fire in a circle and shooting the animals when they jump out in a frenzy. Leah has become  bold and argued with her father about going hunting though both were talking calmly because her father said Leah wasnt worth trying to "teach" any more. after the meal she left and didn't come back until after the hunt. This is a point where we find out that Nathan really doesn't care much for his children. And the family is virtually separated although the mom doesn't think so.

"The Red Wheel Barrow" William C. Williams

I feel that this poem is expressing that everything has to be just picture perfect.  Because what other "happy color" can you make white stand out with the best ,and when you think of a wheel barrow or a wagon what color is it usually? Blue is calming and not exciting and most other colors are too light or too dark so that leaves you with some color if you go into detail mixed with red. It also goes with the chickens comb compliments its yellow legs.This is the perfect picture with the shinny wheel barrow and white chickens. So overall I think that the author is questioning why so much depends on image and, perfection, and to be like everyone else.

Homework # 1 Thursday

uncouth: strange, Dreadful
yclept: archaic way of saying "named"
buxom: jolly, lively, here, "full of gaiety"

Homework #1 Wednesday

(SPOILER ALERT: do not read if you don't want to know the details of the movie)

When I think of a self-Knowledge movie I think of the first movie in the Jason Bourne Series. (The book is so detailed and different than the movie). Jason Bourne is on a quest to find his identity after being pulled from the ocean with long term amnesia. He is essentially "the knight" since he is a failed black-opps government experiment the "bad guys" is crooked government agents and politicians trying to cover up the incident. The Grail is his Identity, he eventually goes to a bank in Switzerland where he finds passports that have both the names John Michael Kane and Jason Bourne on them so he has to figure out which one is what. The Damsel in distress is Maurie he meets her after the bank incident and pays her 20000 euros to drive him to paris. They go to his apartment and when they get there there is a hit-man with her picture because she used to work as a lower level person on the Black Briar project which is the project that Bourne was Trained through. Bourne Doesn't find what he is looking for but he finds the files on the Black Briar project and exposes the conspiracy and lives happily ever after with Mauire (unexpected and unintended by him) while the politicians turn on eachother.

homework #1 Monday

"Literature is full of patterns, and your reading experience will be much more rewarding when you can step back from the work, even while you're reading it, and look for those patterns." (Foster xiv)

This quote helps me the most because I have problems with taking that step back to analyze the passage. Often when I try to analyze a passage all of the terms get into a confusing jumbled mess.This passage is suggesting that you need to take a step back from the passage and pause in the center to analyze. I often read the whole passage first and do not take time to think about it and often times when I go back to think about the passage I forget some of the finer details.

"The Black Walnut Tree" By: Mary Oliver

I can associate with the author because my yard is full of black Walnut trees.  I just assumed almost every one had at least one nut tree either walnut or pecan or chestnut but I guess not. My dad often debates about cutting them down but they are good shade, and keep the excessive amount of squirrels out of our chicken feed. When I was little my best friend and neighbor picked up more than three shopping carts full. We put them in a giant bag to take to my grandma for whatever she could think of to make out o all those nuts.  They are good shade up until the fall when the nuts start falling then look out, because most of the nuts are the size of a golf ball to about the size of a baseball. It is also funny when the outer shell starts rotting because that is where the black color comes from. and it is more of a yellowish brown if you accidentally step on one barefoot or your dog rolls in them.

homework #1 Tuesday

Score: 9/12 

synecdoche-A figure of speech where one part represents the entire object, or vice versa.

alliteration- the repetition of accented consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other, usually to create an effect, rhythm, or emphasis.

Allusion-a reference in literature or in art to previous literature, history, mythology, pop culture current events or the Bible

Blog#3 Meal as Communion

One of the most memorable meals as communion I can remember is Christmas dinner at my grandparents house. It is pretty much the same every year but it is the only time that the whole family is together at one time. No one would eat breakfast because at lunch we would have breakfast and lunch together and that way no one would have to cook for a few days because of all of the left overs. So after the horrendous meal was cooked fit for a king, and there was no place to sit around the table my uncle would say the blessing. He is a pastor and as far as I know has always blessed the family table. After that everyone would get a plate of food, and going around the table was alot like a church dinner because you had to wait in line except we are not formal. It is ok to reach over someone else to get your biscuit because the table was round and to say the least it is like being in a hot sardine can. So after I conquered the table getting may favorite Christmas food; turkey gravy and a biscuit I headed to the couch with my cousins and my grandpa to eat and talk. We talk across the room and have our ow. side conversations but we do not get too loud everything comes up from politics, to cows, to school, to health, you name it we have probably talked about it. After we ate we continue talking and open gifts.

Blog#2 "PoisonWood Bible" Should families stick together no matter what?

"Should families stick together no matter what?" this question is alot different now that it was in this book's time period setting and that marriage and divorce has fallen along way since then. Now people are getting divorced every day and there are very few who look at it from both monetary and a religious point of view anymore. In the time period of this book people especially in the south eastern part of the United States were very religious and most were living in suburbs and had credit alot like what we do today. However that being said divorce or even split families was both shunned upon religiously as well as the fact that at the time the father was usually the head of the household and the only one working.(note also this was before the women's rights movement) Some families should make an effort and some should not.
 In the book the wife and children wanted to get away from the father because he was abusive and one child was deathly sick ,however they lacked the resources because he made all the money. They were also terrified of him because he was abusive due to a war injury and maybe PTSD.In this situation the family should not stay together because one parent is abusive and completely ignores a sick child. Although like every family if they just had an argument every now and then they should stick together.

Blog#1 "Introduction to poetry" by Billy Collins

"I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide", this is the lines I most identify with in the poem as how to understand poetry. Authors use a rainbow of literary elements and write poetry for many different reasons .These lines are suggesting that you need to examine the poem carefully and think more into the meaning that just what is on the surface but not necessarily nit pick every word and scrutinize every line.